Rising fascism in the US

@Lash,

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I think NATO pressed brinkmanship to Putin’s porch and caused the invasion of Ukraine on purpose.

Ukraine isn't a member of NATO. Why shouldn't Ukraine exist as an independent country which can exercise self-determination? You seem to think that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own but not the Ukrainians?
Because it might upset the Czar's plans for a pan-Slavic empire?

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@Lash,

Now you're comparing yourself to occupied people.

And a persecuted/exterminated minority.

Have you no shame?

If the Palestinians were able to vote the Israelis out they would have done so.

Stop playing the victim.

You're not the minority, you're white, you've got the vote.

And you've got a gob on you too.

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@Lash,

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UHC is what we need.

It's what a lot of us want. Unfortunately, the political divide in this country has continued to make that impossible. Look how many of your fellow red-state governors have refused Medicaid expansion. They don't want UHC. You can't blame that on Biden. (Oh yeah, you probably could!) So, for now, we have a model based on private insurance companies. As limited as it is, it has worked for tens of millions of citizens who could not have afforded health insurance under the previous system. Meanwhile the entire healthcare industry is being challenged by changing demographics, the increased cost of new technologies, and emerging threats to public health. These factors would strain any healthcare system, UHC included. Look at the strain the Canadian system is undergoing right now.

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@Lash,

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If you want to have an honest recounting of Biden’s statements, bills, and actions compared to his rhetoric, we can do that.

No, I don't think you can.

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I know he pretends hard to support unions—but he effectively keeps them down.

Oh really? Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead

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There’s some slimy open racist, sexist, murderous **** in his history & in his present—widely available.

No there isn't. All kinds of scurrilous crap is "widely available". Digital technology has become a veritable goldmine for dishonest people.

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He’s a ******* genocidist.

Simplistic over-dramatization as usual.

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Multicolored parsing will color the weekend.

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@hightor,

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Meanwhile the entire healthcare industry is being challenged by changing demographics, the increased cost of new technologies, and emerging threats to public health. These factors would strain any healthcare system, UHC included. Look at the strain the Canadian system is undergoing right now.

Here in Europe at the moment, climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis are having a major impact on the healthcare system.
An additional impact.

All countries are searching/looking for structural reforms to make healthcare provision for the population everywhere - in urban and rural areas - fit for the future.
We have a shortage of skilled nursing staff, and increasingly also of doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and midwives.
However, demographic change is leading to an increase in the burden of disease and a simultaneous shortage of resources.

Good healthcare does not come for free.

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@izzythepush,

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Re: Lash (Post 7349916)
I think you are parroting Putin's propaganda.

Uh, yeah. However knowingly, her campaign is the same: foment disaffection with American governance and culture (particularly liberal goals/values), set Americans against each other, promote hopelessness and nihilism, describe actual authoritarian governments as benign or as victims of America's footprint in the world while describing the US and Britain as authoritarian, etc. It's the same game she is playing.

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@Walter Hinteler,

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hightor wrote:
Look at the strain the Canadian system is undergoing right now.

Yup. Like everywhere, the pandemic caused a major disruption of our medical delivery system. Many healthcare workers became burned out from the hours and demands and risks associated. Not to mention the frustration of combating and working around all of the anti-vax disinformation being yelled at health workers over the last few years. Further, again as pretty much everywhere else, the demographic reality of boomers reaching retirement age has really cut out a huge swath of health professionals in nursing and in our supply of doctors. There was a failure here in our refusal to face this very predictable problem we've known was inevitable. We're trying to recruit from other nations but we are competing with other North American and European nations not to mention that those source nations have their own problems. Then there are the increased costs associated with lingering supply chain disruptions and corporate greed.

And now, here, the increasingly radicalized right wing parties continue (at rates unprecedented) to fear monger and spread disinformation about our system for what they hope will be political gain if/when citizens become disaffected with our system - while at the same time, forwarding no solution to any of the actual problems.

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In my country, a president (Biden) said that if Congress sent a bill for Medicare For All to his desk, he’d veto it.

The power behind the US presidency will never allow UHC in this country.

Democracy features the citizens choosing representatives who reflect their desires, those desires becoming law for the people.

In the US, once ‘representatives’ get into positions of power, they stop representing their constituents and start serving Israel and other donors for bribe money that was made legal by those same ‘representatives’ & the ‘justices’ who surprise! also like money / respond to blackmail.

Even if enough brave souls were to get a bill for the people passed, you have one man at the top, blocking the will of the people.

Sounds like a dictatorship to me.

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@Lash,

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In the US, once ‘representatives’ get into positions of power, they stop representing their constituents and start serving Israel and other donors for bribe money that was made legal by those same ‘representatives’ & the ‘justices’ who surprise! also like money / respond to blackmail.

Even if enough brave souls were to get a bill for the people passed, you have one man at the top, blocking the will of the people.

Sounds like a dictatorship to me.

National Archive wrote:

The Framers of the Constitution gave the President the power to veto acts of Congress to prevent the legislative branch from becoming too powerful. This is an illustration of the separation of powers integral to the U.S. Constitution.

So you think that you've got a dictatorship from the earliest beginning of the USA?

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@Lash,

There was no realistic source of funding for Sanders's plan. When Congress can get it together to actually pay for these expensive programs you might find a president who will sign it into law.

Pres. Biden wrote:

I want to know, how did they find $35 trillion? What is that doing? Is it going to significantly raise taxes on the middle class, which it will? What's going to happen?

I commend his restraint instead of making pie-in-the-sky promises on the campaign trail which couldn't be fulfilled.

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@blatham,

The visionary Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his plan to import pharmaceuticals from Canada:

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Canada has a population of 40 million—that of Florida is 22 million. Add in the populations of Texas, Wisconsin, Colorado, etc., and it is easy to see that if all these states were to attempt to get their medicines from Canada, there would be enormous drug shortages north of the border. Its pharmacy shelves would be quickly depleted. Furthermore, drug manufacturers aren’t going to suddenly ship more drugs supplies to Canada so that they can be reshipped to the U.S. at lower prices. Manufacturers will limit supplies to Canada to the levels that were sold before U.S. re-importation began. Canada, as happened in British Columbia, will limit its supply of drugs to Canadians. Thus, getting prescription drugs from Canada is a non-starter.

Nevertheless, given the current political environment, politicians will claim credit for enacting such a law—one that will prove to have little utility. forbes

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@hightor,

In Germany, our drug-pricing system (our health insurance funds are not paying more than the legally set price for generic medicines, according to the country’s fixed-price regulations) is the main cause of the drug shortage.
Germany is the country in Europe with the lowest prices. And the drugmakers are multinational companies, they are selling their products primarily to the countries where they can get the highest prices.

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@hightor,

There's pretty much nothing this MFer does that isn't merely performative.

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@blatham,

And it's true.

I live about 16 miles from where the poisonings took place.

I go there a lot.

It's on the way to my dad's house which I'm currently clearing out.

It's hard for me to avoid Salisbury.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

The power behind the US presidency

Who/what is that?

Stop being so vague and start naming something other than bogeymen or oligarchs.

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@hightor,

hightor wrote:

Pres. Biden wrote:
I want to know, how did they find $35 trillion? What is that doing? Is it going to significantly raise taxes on the middle class, which it will? What's going to happen?

Trillions for foreign wars but none for the lives of the taxpayers.
A gross lie.

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@izzythepush,

As I’ve said before, I don’t know who. Nobody who knows is saying.
I suspect billionaires.

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@Walter Hinteler,

We certainly have one now.

He also solely bypassed Congress to fork over two multimillion dollar tranches to Ukraine.

70% of Americans want Medicare for All. One man at the top nor the people’s Congress should be able to ignore that.

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@Lash,

False cause and effect.

It's not like you had it before Ukraine was invaded.

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